A follow-up to my previous post. Found this recent essay by Chuck Baldwin that lays it down in a way that I'm pretty sure the pro-war cowards (and really, what else CAN you call them?) will never stand up and answer to...To those who are engaged in war, the consequences can be nightmarish! Arms and legs cut off. Eyes put out. Flesh burned. Intestines ripped out. Backs broken. Skulls crushed. Lives lost. Families torn apart. Homes destroyed. Children...
Monday, May 30, 2005
Memorial Day musings...
I'm going to pose a question that I've been thinking about the past several months:Does being a soldier who merely steps foot on foreign soil qualify that soldier as a "hero" who's defending his country?Because I don't think so.And yet so many are being sent to other lands to come back as "heroes" while those doing the sending, are all too reluctant to go and be "heroes" themselves.Why should I feel compelled to honor anyone on Memorial Day? We...
Sunday, May 29, 2005
Time to say "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen" to Star Wars Galaxies
Wish it could be reported that everything is going beautifully in these halcyon (final?) days of being a Star Wars supergeek, but alas! Some things are not the ideal they should be in that saga far, far away...I've been playing Star Wars Galaxies, the massively-multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) that Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) runs for LucasArts, ever since last January. I've been quite proud of the online persona of "Slanner Kwintz"...
Friday, May 27, 2005
Some thanks that's overdue regarding Forcery...
I've thanked a lot of people already for helping make this film possible but there's one group of people that for some reason I really neglected to mention, because this movie practically grew up in the forum and if it wasn't for plenty of advice and suggestions on stuff like de-interlacing and rotoscoping, well there wouldn't have been a Forcery worth downloading, if at all.So here's both a tip of the hat, and an invitation if you haven't already...
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Yesterday Durbnpoisn at TFN FanFilms added Forcery to their Fan Films Hosting Pool: a collection of mirrors for various films. Forcery hasn't been hosted there yet, but I wanted to make an acknowledgement of that courtesy by them. See that sweet-lookin' "banner ad" on the right? If you click that you'll be taken to a page at TFN that has links to all four of the Quicktime versions without having to suffer from my commentary ...
Happy 83rd Birthday to Christopher Lee!
I still think he didn't get enough screen time in Revenge of the Sith though...Anyway, in honor of the occasion and the remarkable life that Mr. Lee has led for practically its entire run so far, I thought it might be a neat idea to bring back to mind another article I wrote here a few months ago: THE KNIGHT SHIFT Exclusive: Christopher Lee's VERY FIRST Horror Picture Appearance!And...
Seeking Christian Wisdom from the Jedi Masters...
Well gang, for more than over a month I was working to get Forcery out and now that's finally accomplished. I can now set my sights on doing some other things that have been on the radar screen (and yes Brian I am going to be posting those pics from Star Wars Celebration III :-) Gotta bear in mind, and it's a whole new thing on the other side of the fence believe you me,...
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
FORCERY World Internet Premiere: Download and Watch It NOW!!!
May 25, 2005. Ironically enough it's the 28th anniversary of the release date of the very first Star Wars movie Episode IV: A New Hope. The legendary story is that George Lucas was eating dinner in a restaurant across the street from Mann's Chinese Theater and didn't even realize until later that those throngs of people lined up outside the place were waiting to see his...
"You haven't heard the last of Ernest T. Bass!"
Okay, now I am depressed. Saddened, even. Darnnit this has been an emotional week for me and just about all of it from the pop culture scene (which doesn't hardly happen, ever). But this one... hurts... folks, seriously. But we were blessed to have had him while we did, and now he's gone to that great celestial hollar up in the sky...Howard Morris has passed away at the...
Forcery is coming soon. Like, TODAY!
I guess the last bit of "learning curve" that I'll have to go through so far as Forcery goes has come yesterday and today, when I've had to master all the lil' quirks that come with encoding video into Quicktime format. The first result was a 460 MB monstrosity that I'm going to keep online, just for benefit of anyone who wants that size and the slightly better video quality that comes with it. That's 480x270 resolution, the same as with what I'll...
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
"Think of the CHILDREN!": Christian group is wrong to demand end to Burger King Sith promo
Some people have way too much time on their hands. And I loathe them with a passion. A few years ago it was the bastitches at Center for Science in the Public Interest: the jerks responsible for making it impossible to ever again have real decent movie theater popcorn. I pray there's a special circle of Tartarus awaiting them for that.Now it's some outfit called the Dove Foundation, who are honked-off that Burger King is doing a tie-in with Star...
Monday, May 23, 2005
This movie just won't quit haunting me
And I never thought that would ever be coming from a Star Wars movie.The first hour or so, it's pretty standard fare for the saga. But the next hour and a half is rife with so much disturbing imagery and dialogue... call me overly-sensitive but I've literally cried just *thinking* about some of the things in this movie.Order 66 is something I'm coming to wish we had never had to witness. If you've seen the movie you know what I'm talking about....
Friday, May 20, 2005
Ruminations on the Sith
Well, twelve hours ago we were getting situated back at the Grande Theater here in Greensboro: Brian and I for the second time in less than 24 hours, along with Lisa and this couple from Brian's small group at his church one of whom, Zach, I never thought it possible to be a Star Wars fan and THAT big a spoiler virgin. Me and Brian were the only ones with any idea of what was gonna happen, and I tried warning Lisa all afternoon that it was a harsh...
Thursday, May 19, 2005
Last night's midnight premiere of Revenge of the Sith ...
They told me to bring Kleenex. I didn't listen to them. Titanic didn't faze me at all. The Passion of the Christ left me numb with horror but no tears there either. There were moments during Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy that welled-up my eyes but those were all "happy" tears, like when in The Return of the King when Sam tells Frodo "I cannot carry it for you... but I can carry YOU!" Until now the most overwhelming experience...
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Last ride of the Jedi
Right now I'm sitting behind the keyboard wearing my Jedi costume. Didn't want to but all my friends said I *had* to wear it for this one, the very last midnight premiere of a Star Wars movie. Figure I'd probably regret not doing it years later so I'm covering the bases.Waiting for Weird Ed to get here and then its off to the theater. Will report back later tomorrow: no way I could stay awake any longer than I absolutely need to after going two...
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
NEWSWEEK: Star Wars Episode III script flushed down toilet, widespread rioting by angry fans
This may or may not be true."JEDI AKBAR...
Forcery is in the can!
It is done.It was sorta done a few weeks ago, when we were going to try to take it to Star Wars Celebration III, and then the hard drive... got a little wonky. Luckily I'm a backup beast and we saved almost everything, but had to reconstruct some other stuff. Which lent itself to the opportunity to retool some things.The upshot of it is, this one, the final version, is a HECKUVA lot better than what we had going three weeks ago.All I have to do...
